Incredible String Band's missing member

Subject: ISB's missing member
From: GUEST,johnmc
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 02:00 PM

If reports are accurate, Licorice (sic) has been found alive in the USA, all this time later.

Subject: RE: ISB's missing member
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 02:42 PM

Reports where?

Subject: RE: ISB's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 02:52 PM

Yes, more details please.

I love the Incredible String Band.

Subject: RE: ISB's missing member
From: Reinhard
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 03:11 PM

Daily Mail on 15 November 2025:
A British hippie era Sixties icon who mysteriously vanished without trace 35 years ago presumed dead is ALIVE... as Mail tracks elusive singer down to new life in California.

Just google for "Licorice McKechnie alive".

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 03:31 PM

Reinhard wrote: Just google for "Licorice McKechnie alive".

I did. Nothing I could read. Link?

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 03:35 PM

Ah. You meant without the quotes.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 03:42 PM

Thanks Reinhard,

I did a quick search for news but found nothing. Thanks to your hint I found this:

Internewscast article

The Untold Story of Licorice McKechnie: Unraveling the Mystery of the Enigmatic Music Icon


I have wondered, every now and then, about what happened to her especially hearing about serial killers being caught in the US. I always thought that was the most likely scenario.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 03:48 PM

I couldn't access the Daily Mail article but it is shown in full on the Internewscast site, and yes DaveRo I tried with the quotes - my ex-librarian internet search magic trick - but then tried without the quotes and it worked.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: GUEST,johnmc
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 04:27 PM

It is discussed on the 'Word in your Ear' podcast on youtube.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 04:40 PM

I Know You • The Incredible String Band [with lyrics] ~ Tribute to Licorice McKechnie

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 13 Jan 26 - 07:53 PM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15291505/British-hippie-era-icon-mysteriously-vanished-without-trace-presumed-dead-ALIVE.html

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Paul Burke
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 06:45 AM

Perhaps a more accessible link.

ISB were one of the stages by which I moved from rock music, which I often found too violent and aggressive, to folk. The next step was Fairport Convention. Then Martin Carthy and Shearwater, so so much for the violence.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 11:26 AM

Thanks for the link, Paul.

It is the same article as the Internewscast link I posted because I couldn't access the original Daily Mail article. Just curious, is the article accessible on the link I posted?

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: DaveRo
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 03:28 PM

Helen wrote: Just curious, is the article accessible on the link I posted?

Yes. What suprises me is that the Dail Mail should have published this. Not their kind of subject, I'd have thought.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Reinhard
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 03:51 PM

Well that's what the tabloid press considers "investigative "journalism - solving an alleged mystery by hunting up and bothering someone who just wants to be left alone and in peace.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: DaveRo
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 04:09 PM

My thought too.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 14 Jan 26 - 04:56 PM

I agree.

And also, is it really Licorice or is it just some poor old ordinary lady being bothered by the media because it will draw in an audience? I haven't seen any other media outlets picking up the story so it could just be knitted out of old fluff to create a short term sensational news item.

Excuse my cynicism, please.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: PHJim
Date: 16 Jan 26 - 04:34 PM

I assumed that this thread would be about Clive Palmer, who was only on the first ISB LP, with the junkyard double decker bus (my favourite) and seemed to drop out of sight.
I still play his Empty Pocket Blues and love the version with Robin's flute.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Jan 26 - 06:38 PM

Robin Wiliiamson, a musician beyond compare, even if the stuff they came out with was often sonorous nonsense. I once had to rescue a woman I loved from him at a gig. I'm not sure she was best pleased.

Subject: RE: Incredible String Band's missing member
From: Helen
Date: 16 Jan 26 - 09:09 PM

Robin Williamson made some albums featuring the Celtic Harp. I have one or two of them in my old vinyl collection which I don't play any more and when I tried to find the CD's a decade or so ago they weren't available. Beautiful albums. I should try to buy the CD's now because they might be available.

I know I have Winter's Turning, and possibly Music of the Mabinogi or maybe Legacy of the Scottish Harpers. I have put the vinyl records somewhere "safe" i.e. I have no idea where they are stored in the house.